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Anyway, I recently switched from Ubuntu to Deep in, which is based on Debian Did nowadays, and I really miss PRIME.
Bumblebee came with the distro when I installed. I tried removing it and setting up Optimus as per the Debian tutorial, but I could only get X to render a black screen, so I reverted my changes.
Does PRIME even work on non-Ubuntu Debian distros? Otherwise, is there another solution that will let me use the NVIDIA card full-time and thus have up-to-date drivers, Vulkan, etc?
Debian sid should have a recent version of the package "nvidia-driver" (without the quotes), so just installing that should allow you to use your NVIDIA card to its full potential, without the dynamic graphics switching, though.
Having said that, does the following help you set up PRIME successfully?:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/320384/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-debian-and-switch-between-drivers/320397#320397
Anyway, I don't want to just add that repository because, despite being based on it, Deepin differs a lot from Debian Sid, so I'm afraid apt will try to update my system files with packages from that repo. I'm pretty sure there's a way to limit repo queries to specific packages, though, and I think I saw something about it on the Deepin forums. I'll try it and post what happens.